Check out @wrathofcon.bsky.social's *Where Is Religion?* project, an interactive learning tool for undergraduate American religion courses, produced through Princeton's Center for Culture, Society and Religion.

Where is Religion?

An interactive teaching tool exploring the unexpected places where religion appears in American life.

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some thoughts on k2-18b! 🧵 www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...

Are there signs of life on alien planet K2-18b, or is it just a lot of hot air?

The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being greeted with both enthusiasm and skepticism.

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M. Gessen hits the nail on the head, yet again www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

I'm just a boy, standing in front of a physicist, begging him to reconsider the broad generalizations through which scientists tend to understand religion (which consequently makes scientists look naive and silly!)

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

yes

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

thankfully, "Grok, welcome to the resistance" is the sequence of words that summons the meteor

CCSR is pleased to announce that Connor Martini @wrathofcon.bsky.social will be joining us this Fall as Postdoc in Religion & the Public Conversation. His work explores how scientists approach & apprehend the unknown; he will pursue a public-facing project on "Detection." ccsr.princeton.edu

Interrupting my regular lurking and retweeting bc I GOT A JOB!! This fall I'll be a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton's Center for Culture, Society, and Religion @princetonccsr.bsky.social working on the "Religion and the Public Conversation" project 😎

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Put this on your fucking Hugo ballots or be dead to me tbh

Inside the House of Wisdom - Lightspeed Magazine

This is the eighth floor of the Al-Ahli Memorial Library, my favorite place in the building. When the elevator door opens, it’s like walking into a quiet circle of glass. So, as we walk, I’m going to ...

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Just gonna leave this right here

Larry Tenney@larrytenney.bsky.social · last yr.

A third of eligible Americans didn't vote in 2024 But 83% of them disapprove of the job Trump is doing We don't need to de-program any in the MAGA cult We just have to convince some of those who failed to vote to show up next time Let's ask them what they want and see if we can deliver

my kingdom for chinos that don't make me look like this

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.

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It’s so rad to have such a strong and united opposition party 🤡

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

9 Democrats just voted with Republicans to censure Rep. Al Green for protesting Donald Trump's speech to Congress. 224-198. 2 voted present.

not going to lie it’s pretty bleak that we’re having to explain to people who are supposedly democrats as to why ronald reagan was bad

Evergreen.

Eoin Higgins@eoinhiggins.bsky.social · last yr.

Of course

Boycott dates!

Reagan was such a good president that you can see his impact on nearly every measure of America's economy and livelihood ♥️ in that he destroyed everything for everyone and is in hell being tortured by demons right now

Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social · last yr.

"as a cold war kid, i'm happy that Ronald Reagan was in office" - Elissa Slotkin, the official Democratic response to Trump oh hell yeah baby that's the winning message!!! my god we are cooked

wow they’re out here casting 7th level eyebite

Luke Steuber@coolhand.bsky.social · last yr.

Oooo the apocalypse just got more interesting

Seems like the relevance of this Reagan-era Herblock cartoon has risen by 200%. Washington Post, 12/22/1988.

lmfao so what exactly is the political position being articulated here? what is not Donald Trump and not the "far left"? when you stand for nothing, you don't get cookies for not "bending the knee"

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · last yr.

Hakeem Jeffries complains that "the extreme left protest me more than they protest Donald Trump...I think because I've chosen not to bend the knee to either people on the far left and certainly not to Donald Trump and the far right."

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...

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By popular demand, we're bringing you SIX (6) recommendations for space horror books centered on female characters!! Wait-what was that sound? One moment–I'm going to check the airlock. I'm sure it was nothing...

lol. lmao, even.

The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.

Elon Musk’s AI said he and Trump deserve the death penalty